Matrix Games

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ORIGINAL: wodin

I'm getting really fed up with the amount of "lite" games being made so they can be mobile\tablet friendly. It seems nearly everygame is bordering on casual these days especially the indie strategy titles.

Mobiles and Tablets for me are having a negative effect on games and it's disappointing.

Soon you will be hard pressed to find new deep strategy games coming from indie developers.

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ORIGINAL: wodin

I'm getting really fed up with the amount of "lite" games being made so they can be mobile\tablet friendly. It seems nearly everygame is bordering on casual these days especially the indie strategy titles.

Mobiles and Tablets for me are having a negative effect on games and it's disappointing.

Soon you will be hard pressed to find new deep strategy games coming from indie developers.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

No different that the movement from DOS to Windows, in my opinion.

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

No, I'm not kidding. Time marches on, and developers have to go where the money is. DOS got old and died, Windows danced on its grave, and now IOS and Android are waiting for their turn. Same deal.

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ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

No, I'm not kidding. Time marches on, and developers have to go where the money is. DOS got old and died, Windows danced on its grave, and now IOS and Android are waiting for their turn. Same deal.

I have to agree with this right here. Times change and the game developers are smart enough to see where the wind is blowing. Not just our strategy games, the big money MMOs are going in that direction now. For example, compare the playerbase of Everquest to Star Wars the Old Republic. A brand new game as hardcore as EQ would never make it in this day and age.

Same with strategy games.

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ORIGINAL: GordianKnot

This might be true for tactical games but there are still plenty of operational / strategic games in the works that have a lot of depth. The most obvious one being the WITE series which looks to eventually cover all of Europe.

HPS is still around too although it doesn't look like their code base has progressed much since the early years. Seems like new scenarios on an old interface.

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ORIGINAL: GordianKnot

This might be true for tactical games but there are still plenty of operational / strategic games in the works that have a lot of depth. The most obvious one being the WITE series which looks to eventually cover all of Europe.

HPS is still around too although it doesn't look like their code base has progressed much since the early years. Seems like new scenarios on an old interface.

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ORIGINAL: vonRocko

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ORIGINAL: Terminus

No different that the movement from DOS to Windows, in my opinion.

Not even close. Windows expanded possibilities, ipads, and their like, restrict and decrease the possibilities.

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ORIGINAL: GordianKnot

I'm working on a strategy game myself. In it I'm trying to address some of the 'clickfest' issues. You can give a unit multiple orders that will play out over a series of turns. For example, let's say as Germany, you've just invaded Poland. Normally, the next 5-6 turns consist of little more than moving each unit as far as possible west toward's the French front. With my game, you can simply click on the final destination, and then at the beginning of each turn, any unit with unused movement will follow its already determined path until it reaches its destination.

Another example would be a unit created in the US could be given the command to rail to the coast, transport by sea to the UK, rail to another port, transfer to amphibious transport and land on the coast of France all at once. Then it would play out over the next 8-10 turns with no more interaction needed.

Similarly, air and sea units will be mission based. Once you give a task force or air wing a mission, it will execute it each turn until told otherwise or until some fatigue or loss threshold is reached forcing it to stand down till it recovers.

Hopefully this will minimize a lot of the tedium of these large strategy games.

Also, this game targets Windows not iPads or other tablets. Although its possible with the library I'm using that it could be ported to Linux.

http://gswie.blogspot.com/

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ORIGINAL: pvthudson01

Thats the issue. LITE wargames like Panzer General of course work fine. But when you need horsepower, computing power and an AI opponent that actually thinks well a tablet and things like that will NEVER cut the mustard. Which means we get more and more games that are stripped down, dumbed down and made for casual wargamers.

If I wanted that I would buy any EA RTS game

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ORIGINAL: GordianKnot

I'm working on a strategy game myself. In it I'm trying to address some of the 'clickfest' issues. You can give a unit multiple orders that will play out over a series of turns. For example, let's say as Germany, you've just invaded Poland. Normally, the next 5-6 turns consist of little more than moving each unit as far as possible west toward's the French front. With my game, you can simply click on the final destination, and then at the beginning of each turn, any unit with unused movement will follow its already determined path until it reaches its destination.

Another example would be a unit created in the US could be given the command to rail to the coast, transport by sea to the UK, rail to another port, transfer to amphibious transport and land on the coast of France all at once. Then it would play out over the next 8-10 turns with no more interaction needed.

Similarly, air and sea units will be mission based. Once you give a task force or air wing a mission, it will execute it each turn until told otherwise or until some fatigue or loss threshold is reached forcing it to stand down till it recovers.

Hopefully this will minimize a lot of the tedium of these large strategy games.

Also, this game targets Windows not iPads or other tablets. Although its possible with the library I'm using that it could be ported to Linux.

http://gswie.blogspot.com/

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ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.


Ooopsie, double post.

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ORIGINAL: Rtwfreak
yeah just when we are getting to 25" + monitors and high resolution they go back in time to 6" screens or less where you need a magnifying glass to play them.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.


Ooopsie, double post.

Warpite1

Sorry, Jeffrey H, but did you really just say "ooopsie"?